Jonathan Swift's Quote - The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the h

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The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the h

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. – Jonathan Swift

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I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand. – Jonathan Swift

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Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. – Jonathan Swift

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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning. – Jonathan Swift

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What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power. – Henry George

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